Do you want to die for your faith

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As ten Iraqi policemen are killed in car bombings, our correspondent argues that the fact that some radical Muslims are willing to commit suicide for their cause threatens to destroy Christianity as a world religion

THE WORLD has been living with so-called suicide bombers for a few decades now — there have been so many that we almost take them for granted. I use the phrase “so-called suicide bombers” because, as they see it, they are martyrs, and are not really committing suicide. According to their faith, they will go straight to Paradise, with a privileged position in the afterlife. The fact that we in the West call them suicide bombers betrays more than we think.

We of other faiths, and none, have no real answer to the suicide bombers, and surely that raises a